Snoop Dogg gets into the cigar business

The rapper launches his latest brand of "player" lifestyle accessories

Jay-Z posts new song about the birth of his daughter

Chuck D brings the legal noise

Never one to shy away from a confrontation, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D is leading the fight for a better royalty rate

Cheryl Cole and Alex Da Kid working together

The pop poppette is working on a more hip-hop direction for her latest record

NWA movie could be on the cards

That's according to director John Singleton, who's in talks with Ice Cube to make it

Soulja Boy takes down anti-soldier track

'Let's Be Real' isn't appearing on his next album

50 Cent gets charitable

He hopes that his Street King drink will help provide food for a billion African children

The Game hasn't got a problem with gays

But those cloest cases might give us all AIDS, he says

'We smoked Tupac's ashes', say The Outlawz

That's pretty out there, isn't it?